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7. 12-month statistics for all investment recommendations contained in financial analyses of DZ BANK Research:

rating history equities

rating history fixed income 1) – financials, corporates, states

rating history fixed income – covered bonds 2)

1) This table lists the investment recommendations for issuers of the senior unsecured instruments of a certain group parent company, grouped together under the name of this group parent company even if the aforesaid is not itself the issuer. The investment recommendations of these issuers do not differ since the group consideration lies at the forefront of attention. The individual legal issuers allocated for this purpose to a group parent company named her are accordingly listed in the following tables:

Financials, Corporates, EMU Countries, SSAs

2) The investment recommendations for covered bonds shown in this table are valid for one day. The covered bond issuers with their legal form and their country of origin are listed in the following table:

Covered Bonds

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Methodology: Asset Allocation Basic Principles

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Methodology: EMU Government Bonds Research (valid until 01.06.2020)

Methodology: Equity Analysis – Basic Principles

Methodology: Equity Indices

Methodology: Financials Credit Research (valid from 02.06.2020)

Methodology: Financials Credit Research (valid until 01.06.2020)

Methodology: Foreign Exchange Markets

Methodology: Overall Bond Market Strategy

Methodology: Rate Forecasting

Methodology: Rates Markets SSA Research (valid from 02.06.2020)

Methodology: Sector Favourites

Methodology: Value Ideas Basic Principles

Methodology: Value Ideas Investing

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